George Kaplan – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

June 1, 2014 / Vickie Lester

George Kaplan tells us about the place Ridley Scott shot Blade Runner

Lewis Bradbury was a mover and shaker in Los Angeles of the 1890s. In the 1920s Hal Roach opened a film studio in his old house on Bunker Hill, the Rolin Film Company. This is the house when Lewis lived there:Harold Lloyd called the place “pneumonia hall” due to the…

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January 8, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Great Expectations (1946) – a film review by George Kaplan

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946) Dir. David Lean Scr. Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame, Cecil McGivern, and Kay Walsh based upon the novel by Charles Dickens Hello Fearless Readers, I’m here to briefly fill in with a guest post but, don’t worry, the incomparable Ms. Lester will be back very shortly!…

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July 28, 2013 / Vickie Lester

ALCHEMY: A SERIALIZED STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN – PART SIX – THE MARTINI SHOT

A serialized story by, George Kaplan I was looking like we had never kissed before? If the kiss itself had been shocking, unexpected, impossible, this was something else again. When she’d kissed me, the feelings of heart-racing surprise and astonished euphoria had blanked everything else from my consciousness, there had…

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July 27, 2013 / Vickie Lester

ALCHEMY: A SERIALIZED STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN – PART FIVE – THE ABBY SINGER

A serialized story by, George Kaplan When I saw her home it was like being hit by a whirlwind of sensations. The house was quite big but did not possess the crazily ostentatious “bigness” of some houses in California; it looked more like a home than a castle, and the…

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July 26, 2013 / Vickie Lester

ALCHEMY: A SERIALIZED STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN – PART FOUR

A serialized story by, George Kaplan Weeks passed. Hana Koblish was chosen as the new Executive Assistant (a pretty absurd title I know, and I was one) while, amusingly, Bernie Birnbaum found himself saddled with Mendenhall and the two proceeded to drive each other crazy. I, on the other hand,…

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July 26, 2013 / Vickie Lester

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A GRIPPING LIFE

The interwebs, like the world which they mirror, can be a vast daunting place. There are a lot of strange things out there as well as very strange people (of which, I may be one) and it can be quite scary. But then you discover places that are purely wonderful,…

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July 25, 2013 / Vickie Lester

ALCHEMY: A SERIALIZED STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN – PART THREE

A serialized story by, George Kaplan . Our working relationship was excellent, we were both extremely verbal, often acerbic people with an underlying sensitivity; even if in Grace Mark’s case you might have to drill under the arctic tundra to find it – a failing she freely admitted with a…

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July 23, 2013 / Vickie Lester

ALCHEMY: A SERIALIZED STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN – PART TWO

A serialized story by, George Kaplan . Work with the triumvirate was challenging and fun. The world of meetings, meetings, meetings and deals, deals, deals was often tiring but there was often a special energy about it, and an endless fascination to the workings of the industry and the disparate…

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July 21, 2013 / Vickie Lester

ALCHEMY: A SERIALIZED STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN – PART ONE

A serialized story by, George Kaplan . What’s my name? You don’t need to know that, just call me, let’s see… David. It’s not exactly “Call me Ishmael” but it’ll do. . A few years ago I changed jobs, after spending close to a decade as an actor, mostly on-stage…

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July 21, 2013 / Vickie Lester

EVOCATIVE

What’s as evocative as your favorite bottle of perfume? “Alchemy” a serialized story by George Kaplan in six parts, starting Sunday at 8:00 a.m. Hollywood Time

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